Yay! More tasty dark corners in the saga of mysteriously deceased fake-art huckster Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light (also Groper of Light, Public Urinator of Light, Drunk Driver of Light, and Siegfried & Roy Magic Tiger Show Disruptor of Light). At the time when he became suddenly and mysteriously dead (of Light),…

Thomas Kinkade, whose saccharine oeuvre has appalled aesthetes at malls across the country, has been ordered to pay $2.1 million to a pair of gallery owners who say the "painter of light" scammed them out of their life's savings. [SFGate]